creation podcasts: guestlist

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall will be talking

to actor and director Kenneth Branagh about his new movie

of William Shakespeare's As You Like It....

We talk to one of the best selling crime authors in the UK

Ian Rankin about the 20th anniversary of his Edinburgh based character Inspector Rebus.....

Also on the show is Academy Award winning actress Juliette

Binoche who is currently starring in the movie A Few Days

In September and one of world's leading pianists John Lenehan.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to Hollywood superstar Keira Knightley about her latest movie 'Atonement' which is set in Britain during

the Second World War and also stars James McAvoy...

Also on the show is movie composer Nigel Hess (Ladies in Lavender)..who tells Annie about his latest CD of music for Shakespeare plays by the RSC and singer James Gilchrist on his new CD called 'The Cloud of Unknowing' by Francis Pott

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie talks to one of Britain's best loved sopranos Dame Felicity Lott who is appearing at this year's Windsor Festival with the London Conchord Ensemble where she will perform songs by

Poulenc and De Falla.....Also on the show is Sir Charles MacKerras who is conducting The Philharmonia in a series of recorded live concerts especially recorded for Classic FM's 15th birthday next month.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to soprano Kate Royal about her new album and how Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Paul McCartney have played a part in her rise to fame .

Also on the show is one of the world's leading countertenors Andreas Scholl who is appearing in Vivaldi's Stabat Mater at this years Edinburgh Festival.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about his new CD of the music of Edvard Grieg to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the composers death.

Also on the show is the movie director and writer Paul Schrader , the man behind such films as Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and Raging Bull ,whose new film 'The Walker'

starring Woody Harrelson has just been released...Mark Forrest will also review the movie later on in the show.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall reports back from the Verbier Festival in Switzerland where she spoke to pianist Lang Lang about his love of Classic Fm and about performing the world premiere of the Prince of Wales's commission for the Queen Mother which has been composed

by Nigel Hess....Annie also manages to grab an exclusive interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney and finds out what bought her back to singing after a year away from the concert platform...Also on the show are Hayley

Westenra and Vittoria Grigolo who tell Annie all about their latest recording of Bernstein's West Side Story which celebrates it's 50th Anniversary this year.

This week we tak to the Grammy Award-winning violinist, Hilary Hahn, and find out why she's being collaborating with a guitarist and songwriter for her latest live performance at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

We'll also hear from the world-renowned bass baritone, Thomas Quasthoff, on why he loves giving masterclasses to budding singers.

Ahead of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, which opens on 10th August, The Guest List meets the new Artistic Director behind the event, Jonathan Mills. Discover why Monteverdi's opera, L'Orfeo, is at the heart of the Festival this summer.

Plus, why a new film starring Richard Gere, based on a major con that actually happened, shouldn't be missed and the last offering from a much-loved crime writer is the recommended new read.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall

talks to renowned conductor Andrew Litton

about being the first American music director

of Norway's Bergen Philharmonic....Also on

the show is Buckingham Palace's Choirmaster

Andrew Gant and curator Caroline De Gee Toe

who tell Annie all about the exhibition at Buckingham

Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the marriage

of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to 'Britain's Got Talent' winner Paul Potts about his meteoric rise to fame from car phone salesman to reality TV star.....Also on the show is one of the world's leading choreographers Matthew Bourne , whose production of Car Man has just opened at Sadler's Wells.

Anne-Marie also talks to Laura Michelle Kelly , the star of the new musical based on JRR Tolkien's Lord of The Rings at the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane.

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to legendary singer Andy Williams about life on the road and how he's still pulling in the crowds on his current UK tour....Also on the show are Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers who tell Annie all about bringing Italian cuisine to London with

their Riverside Cafe and the phenomenal success of their series of books.

We also talk to Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra about stepping into the shoes of the great Luciano Pavarotti at the Met for a performance of Tosca , a role he is currently undertaking at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden...Also the composer of the new soundtrack to the latest Harry Potter movie , Nicholas Hooper talks to the Guest List.